Finnish contract vehicle manufacturer Valmet Automotive has signed an agreement with Mercedes-Benz for the production of Mercedes-AMG GT sports cars in Uusikaupunki on the west coast of Finland.
Coupés are produced both as hybrid models and with regular internal combustion engines.
Production will start at the end of next year. Valmet Automotive estimates that car manufacturing employs around 200 people in the various departments of the factory.
However, production does not require the recruitment of new employees, the company pointed out.
At the end of June, Valmet Automotive announced that it would lay off 300 employees.
In the future, all four-door Mercedes-AMG GT cars will be manufactured in Uusikaupunki. According to the company, production must meet very high standards.
"With AMG, we manufacture vehicles that require special skills and top quality. And it’s great to be making sports cars again," Pasi RannusValmet Automotive’s manufacturing director said in a press release.
Mercedes-Benz and Valmet Automotive have previously collaborated in the production of three other car models.
The state investment company Tesi owns 38 percent of Valmet Automotive, which was separated from the state-owned engineering company Valmet in 1995.
Source: The Nordic Page